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The Low-Incidence Teacher Education specialty leads to a Master of Education degree, with the goal of preparing teachers to work as members of educational teams to meet the individual needs of students with low-incidence disabilities (severe intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, and/or severe behavioral disorders/autism) and their families. Prospective students who have not previously completed a teacher certification program must obtain certification concurrently with their master's degree work. Certification obtained during the course of this program will be endorsed in Special Education and Elementary Education (K-8).

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After the trial it was revealed that Tyria Moore made several book and movie deals selling her story. So did three detectives on the case, who later resigned. In their defense, the officers maintained that they were moved to sell their version of the case by pure intentions, planning to put the money in a victims fund. They later denounced exposure of their scheme as the malicious work of brother officers, driven by their jealousy at being cut out of the deal. In November 1992, Dateline NBC reporter Michele Gillen discovered Mallory had served 10 years in prison for violent rape in another state. Detectives had previously denied any evidence existed to corroborate Wuornos’ claims of rape or a history of sexual crimes by Mallory. Had detectives searched federal criminal records to check into claims that Mallory was violent, they would have produced this history. However, the judge refused to allow this to be admitted in post-trial proceedings, and Wuornos was never given a re-trial. After the trial Wuornos was legally adopted by her new friend, Arlene Pralle, after Pralle had a dream in which she was told to "take care of" Wuornos. According to Pralle, Jesus told her to write to Wuornos, and she did. What Wuornos did not know was that Pralle was receiving money for giving interviews, including one with Nick Broomfield, who paid her $10,000. Part of the money went to Wuornos' new lawyer, Steven Glazer, whom Pralle hired. Chief Assistant Public Defender Tricia Jenkins, whose office handled Wuornos´ Volusia County trial, accused Glazer of mishandling Wuornos’ subsequent cases and appeals. Jenkins testified that Glazer never picked up the discovery files from that case, even as he prepared the case in Marion County. Instead, Glazer filed a notice that he was taking over the case and a motion to change Wuornos´ original not-guilty plea to “no contest” on the same day. "He told me he was taking the case because he needed the media exposure," Jenkins said. On March 31, 1992 Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of Dick Humphreys, Troy Burress, and David Spears, saying she wanted to "get right with God.” The relationship between Wuornos and Pralle was not to last; Wuornos began to suspect that Pralle was there only for the publicity and the money. Wuornos told Broomfield in an interview that Pralle and Glazer were telling her ways to kill herself in prison. She suspected they advised the “no contest” plea because Glazer was too inexperienced to handle a multiple murder trial. In June 1992, defeated by the loss of her once trusted friend Pralle, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Charles Carskaddon and received her fifth death sentence. In February 1993 she pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter Antonio and was again sentenced to death. During her plea to the court, she held to her statement that Mallory had raped her. In a rambling statement she said, “I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as I’ve told you. But these others did not. [They] only began to start to.” On May 15, 1993 Judge Thomas Sawaya rendered three more death sentences. She turned to Assistant State Attorney Ric Ridgeway and hissed, “I hope your wife and children get raped in the *ss!” She made an obscene gesture and muttered, “Motherf****r!” The clip below, from the documentary "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer," shows Wuornos' reaction to receiving death sentences for the murders of Burress, Humphreys, and Spears. No charges were brought against her for the murder of Peter Siems, as his body was never found. In all, she received six death sentences.